Plot Summary:A man, his wife and their two sons are having a meal. One of the sons leaves the room pretending to be ill and collects a bunch of flowers form a cupboard and goes out. The other son takes a bunch of flowers from under his bed and he too leaves, followed by their father, also carrying flowers. The two sons and their father call on the same young women one after the other; as each arrives, the previous suitor is hidden in a piece of furniture: the father under a chair cover, one son in a cupboard and the other in a piano. A girlfriend of the young woman visits and the two play pranks on the hiding men by playing the piano and sitting on the chair cover. The three men emerge and the father chases his two sons outside until they remind him of his own folly; he gives his sons some money and urges them to keep silent.
Everyone seems to be looking for an excuse to get away from the Sunday lunch table. But where are the father and both his sons running off to? To their mistress’s, of course. This exceptional nitrate copy, coloured using a stencil process (which is extremely rare for a film by the great Max Linder), was discovered in the nineties by a collector from Charente.